BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Noreen
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 12:24 PM

Great memories! And thanks for the Fireball XL5, I was right back there ...'...on our way 'ome....'
:)


I also liked 'Bewitched' and 'Mr Ed'....

'Go out to the stable and ask the horse
But nobody talks to a horse, of course,
Unless that horse just happens to be-
The famous Mr Ed!'

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Beer
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 11:12 AM

In answer to Bobert.
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Robert Stack
Field: Entertainment


Info: He came to fame playing Eliot Ness in the TV series "The Untouchables", he also appeared in the movie "Airplane!" and hosted the TV show "Unsolved Mysteries"




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Date of Birth: 01/13/1919
Date of Death: 05/14/2003
Age at Death: 84

Cause of Death:
Heart failure

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Kit Griffiths
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 09:28 AM

"When I was a child I used to love Bily Bean and his Silly Machine but no-one seems to remember it. I can still remember the theme song:

Billy Bean built a machine
To see what it could do.....

Anyone else remember it?"

YES -"he built it out of sticks and stones, and nuts and bolts and glue"

Thank heavens it's not just me!

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Allan C.
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 05:27 AM

"Plunk your magic twanger, Froggie!"

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 08:31 PM

...and the *old* Lassie series that had Tommy Rettig, Jan Clayton, and George Cleveland in it. (Hey, I just typed those names from memory. Be impressed, people. Be very impressed.)

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Bobert
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 08:01 PM

Yeah, "Dobie Gillis" was like yesterday...

So is "77 Sunset Strip" (Cookie, lend me your comb...)

"The Untouchables"??? I think that Robert Stack is still alive...

How about "Sky King"??? "Fury"???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 07:50 PM

I used to love The Untouchables. And does anybody remember Science Fiction Theatre (oooops, I mean Theater)? What was the name of the guy in the big swivelly desk chair who introduced it? Conrad Somebody?

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: BlueJay
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 07:21 PM

Does anyone remember Dobie Gillis? With Duane Hickman and Bob Denver, (pre-Gilligan). I'll never forget Denver's lovable beatnick Maynard G. Krebs!

Also--77 Sunset Strip, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Mission Impossible,
Father Knows Best. My favorite drama of that era was The Fugitive.

Oh, and Hogan's Heroes!

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 05:47 PM

So, did you ever get in trouble with your mom for drawing on your TV screen with the special Winky Dink Crayons but forgetting to put the magic green shield over it first?

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Allan C.
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 04:49 PM

Not only am I old enough to remember WinkyDink, but I am also old enough to remember Rootie Kazootie!

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 03:27 PM

My son is finding and watching a lot of television series on NetFlix. He's becoming quite the old television show aficionado at age 19.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: theleveller
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 03:21 PM

Rawhiiiiiiiiiiiiide (smashes self on head with tin teatray).

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 02:59 PM

OK, hands up, who's old enough to remember Winky-Dink?

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Arkie
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 01:42 PM

Another comes to mind. Leave it to Beaver

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 01:10 PM

And two US shows we got in here in the late fifties / early sixties (?): Casey Jones (train driver) and Cannonball (truck driving - a big rig, much bigger than the lorries we had in the UK at that time). Loved them both.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Jim Martin
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 08:30 AM

Garry Halliday. I was in my final years at school and this series made a deep impression on me:

http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/adults/other/garryhalliday.htm

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: David C. Carter
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 06:26 AM

Allan C, Thanks for the correction.

David

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 06:12 AM

Champion the Wonderhorse
THE Fugitive ( always pronounced with a heavy emphasis on 'THE' for some reason. Used to make us giggle)
Roy Rogers (swoon, oh I did fancy him)
Early Dr Who, seemed terrifying to us
Blue Peter, and the baby elephant that wee'd, poo'ed then dragged its keeper right through it. We laughed til we cried, and had to be told off for getting hysterical.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Allan C.
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 06:04 AM

"Was there not a series called:"The Naked City",Broderick Crawford?"
As SRS alluded, Broderick Crawford starred in "Highway Patrol"; not in "The Naked City". James Franciscus, among many others, starred in the later.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: bubblyrat
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 05:40 AM

I was born in 1947 , so I can remember lots of quite early stuff ; Long John Silver , The Buccaneers , Man In A Suitcase , Dragnet , Bronco Lane , North to Alaska ( it didn't last long !) , I Love Lucy ( Yukk !!) ,Dr Finlay's Casebook , Para Handy ( with the incomparable Duncan MacCrae )
Boots & Saddles ( my favourite "Western" series ; I liked the title music and the bugling !!) and the unavoidable ( it always seemed to be on ) Wells Fargo , with the stagecoach wheels revolving the wrong way , or appearing to ! Happy Days ! ( I am now heavily into, and have nearly finished watching, "Six Feet Under " !!).

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Tunesmith
Date: 02 Dec 11 - 02:19 PM

These are the stories of the men whose training, skill and courage...

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Dec 11 - 01:30 PM

Ah! Highway Patrol reminds me of another crime drama classic - Dragnet. And how could I forget to mention my man Perry Mason. I still watch that one all of the time.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: David C. Carter
Date: 02 Dec 11 - 12:31 PM

Was there not a series called:"The Naked City",Broderick Crawford?

And:"Ghost Squad".

"The Virginian".

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 02 Dec 11 - 12:10 PM

"I could never understand why the chimp was called Cheetah seeing that a Cheetah is a wildcat. "

I have one piece of advice for you. Don't play poker with a chimp.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 02 Dec 11 - 07:55 AM

I did NOT like Daktari (with Clarence the cross-eyed lion)

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: catspaw49
Date: 02 Dec 11 - 07:16 AM

Funny thing sorta'..........After I read Allen's post suggesting that both probably had the hots for Gale Storm, I was thinking how odd it was that 2 preteen kids in the 50's would think that..........or perhaps it is just a part of "coming of age."

Whatever the case, I did have young crushes. It wasn't so odd when I think that like most young males of those times I was nuts for Annette but a bit weirder when I recall my first was Ann Sothern in "Private Secretary" then Gale Storm and finally in this category of weirdness, there was Amanda Blake on "Gunsmoke" and topping the list, Audrey Meadows in the Gleason show doing the "Honeymooners."

I think the common thread is distinctive voices...............



Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 02 Dec 11 - 06:55 AM

Not forgetting Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Lost in Space.

The continuing story of Peyton Place wasn't brilliant but had the women in my family hooked. Most programs in the 60s had a good tune too.

Talking of Skippy there was another similar animal series about a dolphin called Flipper and of course Lassie (Laddie?). Little Hobo was another favourite of mine there was something appealing about a dog that wouldn't be owned by anybody.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 02 Dec 11 - 06:47 AM

A lot of the shows put on specifically for children involved much gunplay.
Rin Tin Tin, Boots And Saddles, Lone Ranger, Cisco Kid,...

It would not be allowed now.
Did it do us any harm?

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Max Johnson
Date: 02 Dec 11 - 06:18 AM

...And Jimmy Edwards in 'Whacko!'

(Jim won a DFC at Arnhem. Not many people know that.)

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Max Johnson
Date: 02 Dec 11 - 06:12 AM

I can't believe that nobody has mentioned :

Rin Tin Tin, or
Skippy! (All together: "Skipeeeee, Skipeeee, Skippy the bush kangaroooooooo...")

Or Lloyd Bridges in Sea Hunt.

Personal favourites were:
Highway Patrol
Twilight Zone
Bilko
The Avengers

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: theleveller
Date: 02 Dec 11 - 03:59 AM

Er... that should be Billy Bean - Bile Beans were something else entirely.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: theleveller
Date: 02 Dec 11 - 03:59 AM

When I was a child I used to love Bily Bean and his Silly Machine but no-one seems to remember it. I can still remember the theme song:

Billy Bean built a machine
To see what it could do.....

Anyone else remember it?

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 02 Dec 11 - 03:37 AM

Not only was one a Brit - But from my hometown of Manchester! Trafford if I remeber rightly. But before I get any more comments I would like to point out that it was Joke - Well, like one. Maybe without the funny bit at the end.

(Hence the Smiley - :D - Yes?)

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 02 Dec 11 - 02:58 AM

Yes I remember Ripcord I must have been 8 or 9 and jumped off many a wall to do a parachute roll with a little friend of mine who became chief of police in his adult years. Highway patrol comes to mind too which had us all going around with pretend walkie talkies 'over and out!'

No, one Monkee does not look like another to this Brit, they were all on my wall so I should know! Talking of primates I remember the telly series of Tarzan with Ron Ely, Boy (who he found and adopted and Cheetah the chimp was that a 60s series or early 70s? I could never understand why the chimp was called Cheetah seeing that a Cheetah is a wildcat.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Dave Swan
Date: 02 Dec 11 - 02:14 AM

" it's Burke's Law". Remember the purring of that voice?

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 02 Dec 11 - 12:25 AM

"You know one Monkee looks just like another to us Brits"

But one of them WAS a Brit. Wasn't he?

Different monkeys

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Dave Swan
Date: 02 Dec 11 - 12:19 AM

Does anyone remember Rescue 8, or Ripcord? Loved them. I guess it's not surprising that I ended up in my line of work.....

D

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 Dec 11 - 06:30 PM

Oh, c'mon pdq. You know one Monkee looks just like another to us Brits...

:D tG

(You are quite right of course - But Davey was also a child actor and, oddly enough, appeared in Z-cars!)

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 01 Dec 11 - 03:56 PM

Yes, I liked "The Buccaneer" too. Was it singular or plural?

And I forgot another of my favourites - Whirlybirds.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: paula t
Date: 01 Dec 11 - 03:28 PM

I'd forgotten about "Batman!" At the age of 6 I didn't realise what a spoof was. I would be in terror for the next week, in case Batman and Robin didn't escape from the deadly situation they had got into at the end of the programme.Holy broken bones!

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Arkie
Date: 01 Dec 11 - 03:08 PM

One of my favorites was the "Avengers". My memories of Mrs. Peel are most vivid. Also like Buster Crabbe and watched "Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion".

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: pdq
Date: 01 Dec 11 - 02:52 PM

Talking of songs - How about 'Circus Boy' with Davey Jones before he became a Momkee? ~ Gnome Chomsky

Mickey Dolenz was the actor who platyed in Circus Boy. Davey Jones is a Brit.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Beer
Date: 01 Dec 11 - 02:46 PM

Holy Moley, there sure is lots of stuff on it.
Thanks SRS

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Dec 11 - 01:52 PM

The name of the program came from the saying. Look in Wikipedia

The expression, "Living the life of Riley" suggests an ideal contented life, possibly living on someone else's money, time or work. Rather than a negative freeloading or golddigging aspect, it instead implies that someone is kept or advantaged. The expression was popular in the 1880s, a time when James Whitcomb Riley's poems depicted the comforts of a prosperous home life,[1] but it could have an Irish origin: After the Reilly clan consolidated its hold on County Cavan, they minted their own money, accepted as legal tender even in England. These coins, called "O'Reillys" and "Reilly's," became synonymous with a monied person, and a gentleman freely spending was "living on his Reillys."

Wikipedia is only a starting point and I have to dash, but follow a couple of the bread crumb trails and you'll find source material.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Beer
Date: 01 Dec 11 - 01:28 PM

1950's "The Life of Riley". Not sure if this is where the saying arrived from.
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Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: GUEST,Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 01 Dec 11 - 08:53 AM

I've not seen the dots but I have been told that the "Softly softly" theme tune was the "Z cars" theme tune upside down and the so the composer(sic!) got too lots of royalties for one tune! (Think it was Spiegle).

Also I remember hearing that the Z cars police cars were painted yellow so that there were no problems withthe general public during filming, the program being filmed in black and white.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 01 Dec 11 - 08:45 AM

"Are you the loan arranger?" asked the bank customer who wanted to borrow some money.

"No, Sir," replied the teller; "I'm Wyatt Earp."

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Edthefolkie
Date: 01 Dec 11 - 08:12 AM

I used to like watching the valves (tubes) warm up through the holes in the back of the TV!

As Ken Russell's just, sadly, died I hope we'll soon see some of his BBC films - Elgar, The Debussy Film, A Song Of Summer (Delius), and the guitar craze one which features Davy Graham and a guitar shop assistant resembling Richard Thompson.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 01 Dec 11 - 08:11 AM

I also enjoyed watching the TV series of Batman (more than the films made later) especially the fight scenes filmed at odd angles to make it look more comic book, KAPOW and ZOWIE! Batman could always save the day with his Utility belt. The theme tune was good too.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Allan C.
Date: 01 Dec 11 - 06:32 AM

Some time ago we had a member named, Blackcatter, who was a fantastic resource for TV theme songs. His website links, as given in some of his posts, no longer are viable. I wonder if anyone knows whether he still has a website somewhere.

This was the name of his old website:

Blackcatter's World of TV Theme Lyrics